giốc

Vietnamese

Etymology

    Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese (SV: giác).

    Pronunciation

    • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [zəwk͡p̚˧˦]
    • (Huế) IPA(key): [jəwk͡p̚˦˧˥]
    • (Saigon) IPA(key): [jəwk͡p̚˦˥]

    Noun

    giốc

    1. (music) the third note in the classic pentatonic scale[1]

    See also

    References

    1. ^ Dinh-hoa Nguyen (1995), “giốc”, in NTC's Vietnamese–English Dictionary, →ISBN, page 213